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- From: young@serum.kodak.com (Rich Young)
- Subject: Re: Strange hairless circles and the vet
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.202350.13782@pixel.kodak.com>
- Originator: young@sasquatch
- Sender: news@pixel.kodak.com
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- Organization: Clinical Diagnostics Division, Eastman Kodak Company
- References: <41435@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 20:23:50 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <41435@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> palvarez@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Pablo Alvarez-Royo) writes:
- >Thanks to everyone who answered our question. Given that they are indoor
- >cats, crop circles are probably out of the question. The vet did agree
- >with most of the replies and thought that it was probably ringworm.
- >However, there was nothing to be seen under black light, and we are now
- >waiting for the results of a culture. Somebody suggested it might be
- >demodex? Some info on what that is and how it is treated would be
- >welcome.
-
- "Demodex" sounds like one way of saying "demodectic mange." There
- are two major types of mange: demodectic and sarcoptic. The
- difference is in the genus of the mite which causes it, if memory
- serves. Neither is much fun, either for you or your pet.
-
-
- -Rich Young (These are not Kodak's opinions.)
-